Boemo Diale

Boemo Diale started her internship at David Krut Workshop in July 2022, after having met with David Krut at the Turbine Art Fair in 2021. At the time, she was an Honours student at Wits University studying Film and Television, and undertook the internship to see how print could influence her practice. Diale’s first show with David Krut, entitled, Can I Play? was held at the 151 Gallery in February, 2023. The exhibition presented a series of prints created during her internship at DKW as well as unique paintings. Her work has also been featured in a number of group shows in a David Krut Projects and most recently has been featured in our New York Gallery as part of South African Artists in New York, our ongoing initiative to showcase South African talent in the US.

Boemo Diale is a multi-disciplinary artist who grew up navigating different racial and socio-political structures in Rustenburg and the suburbs of Johannesburg. As an exploration of identity, generational trauma, dreams and manifestations, the artist’s practice is both highly personal and speaks to the broader cultural inheritance of South African women. Diale’s visual narration takes on a dream- like articulation, her figures often appear caught within the confines of a vessel or pushed up against the borders of her painted surface. Voluptuous obsidian bodies and more traditional feminine forms take turns resisting against and then complying with the limitations of her iridescent primordial environments. Tropical silhouettes and vivid graffitied universes merge with Diale’s playful, bright and layered use of paint, however beyond the light-hearted immediacy of her work lies a fierce questioning of her sense of place and ability to effect change through her art. Diale’s work on film and on canvas is strongly impacted by her desire to connect with her maternal lineage and tell the inter-generational story of African woman. Diale is able to introduce representations from her personal family archive into the whimsical interior scenes, creating a type of push-and-pull between the artist’s reality and her envisaged world

 

Exhibitions with David Krut Projects

2022 – A Year in Review (2022)

‘Can I Play?’ by Boemo Diale (2023)

What’s the Word? Reading Text in Print-based Art (2023)

Women in the Workshop (2023)

Blogs and Other Media

Printmaking, Art and Film: Boemo Diale on her internship at the David Krut Workshop, Arts on Main

Boemo Diale – Manifestations in Print

The Artist’s Library – Boemo Diale ‘Can I Play?’

Defining Divine: New works from Boemo Diale

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Defining Divine: New works from Boemo Diale

"When I speak of the spiritual, I refer to the recognition within everyone that there is a place of mystery...

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The Artist’s Library – Boemo Diale ‘Can I Play?’

Written by Danijela Cook While perusing the bookshop shelves to create a display corner for Boemo Diale’s exhibition it seemed...

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Boemo Diale – Manifestations in Print

Boemo Diale with one of her paintings. Image courtesy of the artist. Boemo Diale met David Krut at the Turbine...

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Printmaking, Art and Film: Boemo Diale on her internship at the David Krut Workshop, Arts on Main

Written by Boemo Diale My first day in the project space was spent mostly observing and watching. The space itself...

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